Script-writer



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J. D. BRADLEY. SCRIPT WRITER.

No. 549,560. Patented Nov. 12, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES DAVIS BRADLEY, OF JOHNSONS CREEK, NEYV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,560, dated November12, 1895.

Application filed Aprill6, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES DAVIS BRADLEY, residing at J ohnsons Creek, inthe county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Swinging Traction Script-Writer, of which the following is aspecification.

The purpose of my invention is to aid and facilitate the hand in writingand to overcome the effect of nervousness or a trembling hand and toassist in drawing straight lines and graceful curves and forming regularand uniform letters, and also to enable one to write letters and morerapidly than it is possible with the unaided hand and with very muchless exertion and fatigue; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and accurate description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a partial View.

My invention consists of a traction car a, moving parallel with thelines of writing, surmounted with a swinging table b swinging, at rightangles with the lines of writing and suspended on elastic cords or bandso'and sustained by a wire cable (1. The hand of the writer rests on thetable I), which swings as he forms his letters, and the car amovesforward as he writes. The wire cable d prevents the table I) from beingpressed down too far and the elastic cords or bands 0 constantly pressthe table b up against the hand, so that they move uniformly together.The

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elastic bands or. cords c are attached a little distance from the edgeof the table I; to allow it a rolling movement. The car a, together withthe table 6 mounted on it is drawn back under the hand when the line iscompleted and is shoved down to the next line by the pen-fingers oradjusted with the writers lefthand, and as the car a is intended to besmall and light this is easy, and I thus avoid much of the rattle of thetypewriter. The writing-pen e is held in the penfingers far enoughforward of the table I) as not to touch it in forming letters below theline, and the third and fourth fingers of the hand are curled up on theend of the table b,which is swung by the elbow motion ordinarilyemployed in writing. The traction car a thus mounted with the swingingtable b suspended on the. elastic cords or bands 0 and controlled by thewire cable 61 in combination with the writing-pen 6 form a completescript-writer, which I desire to have patented.

I make no claim for the novel manner of regulating the tension; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The traction car a in combination with the swinging table b and theelastic cords or bands 0 and wire cable at substantially as shown forthe purposes set forth.

J. DAVIS BRADLEY. Witnesses:

G110. B. TAYLOR,

J AS. H. OLNEY.

